Criminal

Actress A.J. Cook is pregnant with her second child. The Criminal Minds star and her husband Nathan Andersen are preparing to welcome another member to their family, and Cook took to Instagram.com on Sunday (01Mar15) to share the good news.
Cook shared a profile shot of herself, showing off her growing baby bump, and added the caption, "Miracles do happen and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. #blessed #bump".
Cook and Anderson are already parents to son Mekhai, six. The couple wed in 2001.
Ironically, Cook isn't the only mum-to-be on the Criminal Minds set - her new co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt is also expecting her second child with actor husband Brian Hallisay.

The reverend father of former Doctor Who star David Tennant has gone public with his terminal illness and voiced his support for a bill legalising the right to die. The Scottish actor's dad, 77-year-old Reverend Sandy McDonald, is suffering from lung condition pulmonary fibrosis, and now lives in a hospice, where he is cared for.
Following this revelation, McDonald has called on senior religious figures in the U.K. to support the Assisted Suicide Bill, which aims to allow those who are terminally ill decide their own fate.
He tells Scotland's The Herald newspaper, "I have pulmonary fibrosis. It just gets worse. There is no cure. I have to address it and decide what to do. I have an advance directive which says 'do not resuscitate.' I do not want to be fed by something in my stomach.
"What I do want is the right to a peaceful end to my life. I think we have the wrong slant, the wrong emphasis. The phrase - assisted suicide - has criminal overtones in the minds of many people. We need to take seriously the provision of a peaceful end of life for all those who want it. Of course there would have to be safeguards, and that should be discussed."
Tennant dedicated his special recognition accolade at the National Television Awards to his father in January (15).

British actor Elliott Tittensor is facing a pay out of up to $480,000 (£300,000) after a judge ruled against him in a legal battle over a 2010 bust-up. The 25-year-old star, famed for his role in U.K. sitcom Shameless, was sued by trainee plumber Oliver Flint over allegations the actor hit him with his car in London during an argument, leaving him with brain damage and blind in one eye.
Tittensor claimed he had acted in self-defence, but a judge at London's High Court has ruled in Flint's favour and criticised the actor for his behaviour.
Mr Justice Edis told the court, "(It was) a loutish shouting match in a public street between two men who were behaving badly... Mr Tittensor, on my findings in these proceedings, was guilty of a serious criminal offence... (He was) primarily motivated by anger... His conduct was far beyond what is acceptable as a response to what Flint did to him."
Tittensor's then-girlfriend, Kaya Scodelario, who stars in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, took the stand during the court battle, and the judge praised her "impressive and clear-thinking" testimony.
Flint's battery claim against Tittensor has been upheld and the star now faces paying out substantial damages as well as legal costs.
He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the incident, and was later charged with driving without insurance and fined $1,200 (£750).

Singer Paloma Faith used her acceptance speech at the BRIT Awards on Wednesday night (25Feb15) to open about her criminal past. The Picking Up The Pieces hitmaker burst into tears after taking to the podium at London's O2 Arena to accept the British Female Solo Artist prize.
Faith fought her emotions as she made a rambling but moving speech, during which she stated, "This has been a long time coming... It has taken me... 14 years to stand up here and accept this award... It means so much to me."
The singer went on to open up about the trouble she got into as she fought her way to fame, revealing she was arrested twice for flypapering posters around her native Hackney in London.
She recalled, "I used to fly poster my posters in Hackney for my gigs and I've been arrested twice for doing that and now I've seen that my pictures are all over Greenwich tube station (outside the O2 Arena) legally and that's an amazing feeling."

George Clooney has called on the international community to refocus its attention on the ongoing conflict in Darfur and pressure Sudanese government officials to put a stop to mass "torture rapes" committed by armed forces. The actor and humanitarian has teamed up with fellow activists Akshaya Kumar and John Prendergast from the Enough Project, which aims to end genocide and crimes against humanity, to pen an opinion piece for the New York Times, detailing the violence faced by civilians.
In the article, published on Wednesday (25Feb15), Clooney and his associates insist it is vital for world leaders to pay attention to the escalating situation and demand action to ensure the people of Darfur are not forgotten and subjected to the "mass atrocities", which "continue to occur in Darfur with no external witness" after Sudanese officials reportedly forced the shut down of the United Nations human rights office in the country's capital of Khartoum.
They go on to detail the widespread rape of women in so-called "model villages", which have been set up by the government for refugees displaced by violence to settle.
They write, "These 'torture rapes' are just one tool in Sudan's criminal arsenal, which also includes aerial bombing of hospitals and agricultural fields, burning of villages and the denial of food aid."
To combat this, Clooney, Kumar and Prendergast encourage politicians to use trade sanctions to hit the country where it hurts in a bid to "pressure Sudan to observe human rights and to negotiate for peace".
They state, "The next wave of American sanctions should target the facilitators, including Sudanese and international banks, that do business with the regime either directly or through partners."
The activists are also urging gold trade leaders to initiate audits of suppliers to crack down on sales of the precious metal mined from conflict zones to prevent funds benefiting war criminals, just like they did to those in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Concluding the piece, they write, "The 'torture rapes'... are a reminder to the world that the same conditions that led the United States' declaration of genocide in Darfur are still firmly in place, with devastating human consequences. We must not forget the survivors, and we must impose deterrent costs on the orchestrators and their enablers."
The cause is one close to Clooney's heart - he and Prendergast run the Satellite Sentinel Project, which searches out and captures atrocities and illegal activity in the warzone from hundreds of miles above the earth.

The man who shot and killed American Sniper hero Chris Kyle has been found guilty of capital murder. Eddie Ray Routh will serve life behind bars without the possibility of parole after a jury declared the "troubled veteran" shot Kyle, who inspired Clint Eastwood's hit new film, and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas gun range in 2013.
During an emotionally-charged end to the two-week trial, Littlefield's stepbrother, Jerry Richardson, read a statement to Routh in court.
He said, "Because of you and your irresponsible choices, we lost a great son, brother, father and uncle... and that will never change. Those are traits you'll never experience, because you took the lives of two heroes - men who tried to be a friend to you. And you became an American disgrace."
During the closing arguments, Kyle's widow Taya closed her eyes as she listened to Routh's defence lawyer attempt to convince the jury his schizophrenic client was deluded and believed in his mind that his victims "were going to kill him".
Tara Kyle eventually stood and walked out of the courtroom, slapping the door with her hand in apparent disgust as she left.
District Attorney Alan Nash urged the jury to convict Routh stating, "It's time for his deep well of excuses for violent criminal behaviour to come to an end."
Before the verdict was read on Tuesday night (24Feb15), the members of the jury were reminded exactly what happened at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range on 2 February, 2013, as Kyle and Littlefield attempted to befriend a fellow veteran.
Routh shot Littlefield in the back and then turned his gun on Kyle and shot him six times. Realising that Littlefield was still alive, the gunman shot him twice through the head.
At the end of Eastwood's film, Bradley Cooper, who portrays war hero Kyle in the film, heads off to the shooting range with the actor playing the real-life sniper's killer.

R&B star Chris Brown was forced to cancel a string of sold-out shows in Canada on Tuesday (24Feb15) after he was denied entry into the country due to "immigration issues". The Kiss Kiss hitmaker and singer Trey Songz, along with rapper Tyga, were slated to hit Montreal and Toronto on their Between the Sheets tour on Tuesday and Wednesday (25Feb15), but Brown was unable to cross the border to make the shows.
Concert promoters in both cities confirmed the axed gigs on their Twitter.com accounts, citing "immigration issues" for the last-minute cancellations, and Brown also took to the microblogging site to confirm the news.
In the tweets, which have since been deleted, he wrote, "Unfortunately I will not be able to perform in front of sold out crowds in Montreal & Toronto. The good people of the Canadian government wouldn't allow me entry. I'll be back this summer and will hopefully see all my Canadian fans!"
This isn't the first time Brown has missed an appearance in Canada - last year (14) he was scheduled to perform at Drake's OVO Festival in his native Toronto, but was also denied entry.
According to Canada's Global News, Brown's criminal record, stemming from his 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna, was behind the latest customs clash. In adherence to Canadian immigration law, a person who "committed an act outside Canada that would be a crime" in Canada can be barred from entering.
Earlier this month (Feb15), the singer cancelled a 3 March (15) tour stop at Minneapolis, Minnesota's Target Center due to "scheduling issues", but sources tell Billboard poor ticket sales were to blame.

Patricia Arquette is following up her Oscars night success by playing a real-life bankrobber's former lover.
The Academy Awards' Best Supporting Actress has been cast as one of Jim Sturgess' former conquests in Electric Slide. In the film, Sturgess plays cocky Melrose Avenue antiques dealer-turned-bankrobber Eddie Dodson. Dodson drove to the banks in a black 1963 Ford Galaxy, dressed up like an elegant criminal and made mix tapes to listen to on his getaways. In only nine months in the early 1980s, he robbed 64 banks - more than anyone has robbed before or since. Arquette joins a cast that includes Isabel Lucas, Chloe Sevigny and French star Christopher Lambert.

Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend Nick Gordon has risked jeopardising his chances of visiting his hospitalised partner after publicising a series of nasty text messages exchanged with her father Bobby Brown, in which he accuses him of bad parenting. The New Edition star's daughter with Whitney Houston remains in a medically-induced coma in an Atlanta, Georgia hospital after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub at the Roswell home she shares with Gordon in January (15).
Gordon claims he has been banned from seeing his girlfriend by the Brown family, but the singer's attorney insists the 22 year old has been invited to visit, as long as he agrees to "meet the terms" outlined by her concerned relatives.
Now Gordon has taken to Twitter.com to blast Bobby Brown by revealing a screenshot of a recent text exchange, in which he suggested Brown is in no position to decide what's best for Bobbi Kristina because he barely knows her.
The messages in the snap Gordon shared online on Monday (23Feb15) read: "Man to man I love your daughter... I don't know why you won't let me see her... Your daughter is going to hate you when she wakes up. It's not like you know her anyways (sic). What's her favorite color? What's her favorite smell, movies, food. You don't know."
The post has since been deleted from Gordon's Twitter page, but he continued ranting about the situation online, insisting Bobbi Kristina would want him by her bedside and claiming he is willing to agree to Brown's demands if he can see his girlfriend every day.
He writes, "I can't wait till she wakes up and dismiss (sic) all of the negative thoughts. There is a reason why her mom made me promise to look after her. If Bobby can guarantee me that I can see her 24/7 I'll meet the conditions".
He also revealed his "only regret" was not finding Bobbi Kristina sooner so he could try to resuscitate her.
He then continued to slam her relatives, claiming they have been sending him "death threats" to scare him away in a bid to lay claim to Houston's fortune, tweeting, "I have to remain strong for me and @REALbkBrown... Bobby seen his daughter 4 times in the last 5 yrs (years) Now him and his family want Whitneys $$$ (money) which belongs to Krissi or Cissy (Houston, Whitney's mother) (sic)."
And Gordon has dismissed rumours alleging he has refused to co-operate with police detectives, who have launched a criminal investigation into his girlfriend's near-drowning incident, adding, "I've talked to the cops (with) no lawyer. If Roswell Detectives know how to do there (sic) job everything is cool."

Synopsis

Follows young people on their journey through the American justice system, focusing on them as perpetrators and victims of hate violence. The series examines the many facets of hate crimes, their roots and causes, and the impact on those affected by the acts.